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[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

STOP OUR STROKE SERVICES BEING TAKEN FROM KENT & CANTERBURY HOSPITAL TO WILLIAM HARVEY! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/2milxjRbkS via @UKChange

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

I’m calling on my MP @garethbaconmp to back Long Live The Local. Pubs and breweries need our support! Sign today at https://t.co/eqk8vDbdOi #longlivethelocal

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

Keep Windsor Drive Free Parking - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/K146rcpF8t via @UKChange

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

Chart of the day... 🤓

A reminder of what's been driving UK #food prices higher (hint: it's not #Brexit!)

sources:

https://t.co/ql7aDPZpyu

https://t.co/7z0AneDshS

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

This might be a first step to getting gender ideology removed from our schools, the NHS, the BBC the civil service, and every other captutred institution in the UK. Please sign https://t.co/pmW7aGxKQk

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

Petition: Fund the reopening of the three state-of-the-art Rutherford Cancer Centres https://t.co/XW2Rzz4Jo4

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

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[Pete North @FUDdaily]

If the Tories are sticking to the 2030 ICE ban then the economy is on a permanent downslide. The average commuter can't afford an electric car, especially if they lack range - and especially if mortgage rates are going up along with everything else. EVs aren't going to get cheaper either. Many will find that their jobs are no longer viable without affordable personal mobility. This essentially amounts to a climate lockdown and the slow death of cities. They won't even need to install fifteen minute neighbourhoods because people simply won't be able to travel affordably.

But even if EVs were affordable, there isn't enough juice available to charge them all and insufficient charging infrastructure. Home charging for at least a quarter of the country is a non-option. Roadside charging isn't practical or safe.

The general theme of Net Zero is government mandating technologie that either don't exist or don't work, assuming private capital will fill in the blanks, but without taking into account that even high earning households are having to penny-pinch now to stay afloat. The public simply cannot bear the load of the Net Zero delusion.

Politicians are assuming we're a bottomless pit, as though we can all afford to pop out and buy and EV and install a heat pump while also paying more in our energy bills to transition to intermittent energy. No part of Net Zero can work and there's no aspect of it that will improve the lives of Brits.

The government believes that setting draconian targets will spur investment in green technologies, but the private sector simply cannot deliver. The wind industry is in a death spiral, there's no money for new transmission lines, gigafactories will struggle to compete ironically because of energy costs, and there simply isn't an upswell of demand for heat pumps. Meanwhile, private sales of EVs are flatlining. So-called free market Tories are ignoring all the market signals and ignoring the voice of ordinary voters.

Churchill famously said, we contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. That applies in spades to Net Zero. You cannot stimulate the economy by making energy more expensive. You do not create jobs by turning energy production into a makework job creation scheme. You can't tax people to oblivion and expect private capital to transform the economy.

We are told this amounts to "global leadership" but you do have to ask what planet our politicians are on. There is no nation on earth with a functioning sense of self-preservation that will follow us down this path to economic oblivion. We must simply to conclude that our rulers have gone utterly mad. If we want to survive as a country we must rid ourselves of them - quite urgently.

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[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

& I can’t get a plastic straw….

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Still the craziest thing we've ever seen

(yes, this is a river)

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

@Hammer74681 @ntrav99 This £4bn came from the banks reserves so hasn’t cost taxpayers anything yet

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

Proper politician

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

Can we start fracking & drilling the North Sea now?

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

NEWS:
I feel sick writing this!
I've just got the latest price cap predictions from @CornwallInsight. A huge spike in the key year-ahead wholesale price means

OCT cap prediction UP 64% (so £3,244/yr on typical bills)
JAN cap prediction UP 4% (so £3,363/yr)

/contd

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

This

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Danger of Minimalist Design

(& the death of detail)

A short thread...

[the racing newsletter @equinties]

Update on BGP 2 - the ‘investment syndicate’ coming soon only at:

https://t.co/4lfa62Eawb

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

Petition: Do not sign any WHO Pandemic Treaty unless it is approved via public referendum https://t.co/1uI1Sxp45j

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

Wtaf is this monstrosity

[Patrick Moelleken 🇺🇦 @PMoelleken]

.@ZelenskyyUa's tv address to the Russian (!) people might be the most moving speech that I've ever seen in my entire life. The whole world needs to see, understand and share this crucial Ukrainian message.
#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Україна #Russia #Россия

[Nick Cashman @nicklovescake]

He’s not wrong

[Fr Calvin Robinson ©️®️ @calvinrobinson]

It’s not the Government’s job to “help people eat better and exercise more”.

Nanny statism gone mad.

Points for good behaviour?!

Pair this with the proposed Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and you have a social credit system.

Creepy authoritarians
https://t.co/5GK7uOLLSE

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

This, from the head of NHS England, is simply untrue. This time last year there were 1,300 Covid admissions a day and 11,000 in hospital. Now there are 800 admissions a day and 7,000 in hospital.

[Christine Anderson @AndersonAfDMdEP]

.@SikhForTruth
Thank you for sharing my speech